BIG BOX ISSUE

Home About Us Join Us Board Community Issues Urban Myths Archives Hot Links Volunteers Contact Us	The Moscow Civic Association ("MCA") is in favor of Latah County adopting Moscow 's Large Scale Retail Ordinance ("LSRO") for the Area of City Impact. The LSRO was written by a team of community members with the goal of mitigating negative impacts that retail outlets 40,000 square feet or larger ("Big Box Stores") would likely bring to our growing community. We believe that the LSRO regulates development wisely, in a community-friendly and beneficial manner that protects the property rights of developers, adjacent landowners and the surrounding community. We wish to encourage this type of development. Without the LSRO in place, the citizens of our community have no protection from the adverse spillover effects that unregulated large retail establishments will bring to nearby neighborhoods, to the detriment of residents' property values and quality of life. This threat is something we can mitigate through the LSRO while preserving economic opportunity, enhancing property values and quality of life, and protecting and balancing developer's property rights with those of the impacted neighbors and community. MCA Position on Big Box Ordinance (word document) Size Cap Talking Points Prepared By Non-MCA Citizen's Group (January 2007)(word document) Text of Big Box Ordinance (pdf) MCA Letter to County Commissioners on Big Box Ordinance (word document) Moscow Chamber of Commerce Big Box Survey (pdf) Business Panel Member Warns Residents About Border Crossers, MPDN Feb 2006 (word document) "San Diego Bans Big Boxes" Associated Press (29 Nov 2006) (word document)
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